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KMXT
The head of the Kodiak Island Borough’s Engineering and Facilities department left the position last month. Now the Borough is hiring for multiple positions within the department, including the director job.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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KMXTThis week we hear about more than half a million dollars in federal grant money slated for Kodiak College is frozen, the Alutiiq Museum's archaeology team has pieced together a historical timeline for Shuyak Island, the City approved its FY26 budget, the borough is on the hook for a quarter million dollars for school bond debt, and another dead whale washed up on Surfer's Beach.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin discusses this weekend's Renaissance Faire with organizers.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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(Alaska Department of Fish and Game)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KUCB's Theo Greenly reports that Unalaska has finally started to see some crab disaster money, KDLG's Kendra Hannah on a prediction of bigger fish in the Bay this year, from KBBI Simon Lopez reports that Alaskans will be able to harvest dungies in Cook Inlet, and efforts to map the Pacific herring genome are underway, according to Desiree Hagen of KOTZ.
Alaska News
- Alaska lawmakers plan rare use of subpoenas to get oil tax data
- Anchorage Mayor LaFrance proposes criminalizing homeless camping near schools, trails and playgrounds
- Alaskans divided on bargain Murkowski struck on GOP megabill
- Alaska's iconic Mount Marathon race features talent-packed field
- To stymie veto overrides, Dunleavy asks Republicans to skip beginning of special session
- Anchorage Assembly gives go-ahead for RV Resort in east downtown
- State seizes 39 animals from a wildlife facility outside Haines
- Ahead of high school, some Anchorage teens earn early credits through cosmetology
- New monument recognizes Dena’ina name for Anchorage peak
- Gov. Dunleavy calls for August special legislative session in Juneau
NPR National News
- Trump sets 50% tariff rate for Brazil, blasting treatment of former far-right president
- Former White House doctor declines to testify in GOP probe of Biden's mental acuity
- Celine Song had too much fun as a matchmaker
- Diocese of San Bernardino issues dispensation saying Catholics who fear ICE don't have to attend Mass
- Supreme Court blocks part of Florida's immigration law
- Clinging to a tree, and praying: how a family survived the Texas flash floods
- Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler'
- A young novelist takes on misconceptions about teen moms in 'The Girls Who Grew Big'
- The soundtrack to 'KPop Demon Hunters' surges on the charts
- Linda Yaccarino steps down after a turbulent two years leading X